Question

Matthew determined the average number of red candies in a sample set of 10 bags of candies. The results are the last 5 samples of 10 bags are shown

Sample Average number of red candies per bag
1 248
2 263
3 261
4 254
5 243

What does the variance tell you about making predictions from one of the samples?

Answer 1

The numbers have no pattern, so there is no easy way to predict the number of candies